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‘Quebec education summit – a public relations operation’
Following a meeting with Quebec premier Pauline Marois, the ASSÉ, the militant wing of the Quebec student movement, announced February 13 that it will boycott the Summit on post-secondary education that the Parti québécois government is holding later this month.
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Whither the Quebec left and student movement after the ‘Maple Spring’?
‘The movement launched some seismic waves, their full impact yet unclear’
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Quebec student leader convicted in outrageous political trial
Quebec student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was convicted November 1 of contempt of court for publicly criticizing a court injunction issued during last spring’s student strike. The injunction ordered the strikers to allow dissident students who opposed the strike to attend classes.
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The Québec Spring and the Ambiguous Role of Québec’s Union Movement
The strength and determination of Québec’s student movement against tuition fee hikes can only be accounted for by a number of factors that have contributed to radicalizing the protest and politicizing the conflict.
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Québec Students Teach the World a Lesson
At the beginning of May , the British newspaper The Guardian reported that the student struggle against tuition fee hikes in Québec represented “the most powerful challenge to neoliberalism on the continent.”
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Major victory for Quebec students, environmental activists
Their demonstrations have shaken Quebec in recent months, and yesterday students and environmentalists won major victories.
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Chicago Teachers Prepare to Strike on Friday
For a city once famous for its organized labour movements in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries, the first Chicago Teacher’s Union strike since 1987 could reignite the labour movement in Chicago.
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Québec: From Student Strike to Social Upsurge
By passing Bill 78, a law designed to curb freedom of assembly and the right to strike, Premier Jean Charest expected to quell the three-month-old Québec student strike against tuition fee hikes. But this authoritarian gambit only galvanized the student movement and summoned a wave of support which transformed the student strike into a popular protest against austerity policies.
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My trip to jail for reading 1984 on the metro (First-Hand Account)
Last Sunday, June 10, 2012, I attempted to take part in a protest-action: over the course of a few hours, I would take the metro back and forth from Berri to Jean-Drapeau station to peacefully protest my disagreement with the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which in my opinion promotes sexism.
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Why the silence on Ottawa’s role in the Quebec student strike?
The following article draws attention to an important issue that has been largely overlooked in the Quebec student strike.
The author, Pierre Graveline, is a well-known journalist, editor and publisher, and is currently the executive director of the Fondation Lionel-Groulx. A former official with the Quebec teachers union, he is the author of a book on the history of education and teacher unionism in Quebec.
I have translated this article from the Quebec on-line newspaper L’aut’journal.
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